Ila Fiete is professor of brain and cognitive sciences, associate member of the McGovern Institute and director of the K. Lisa Yang ICoN Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Fiete earned a B.S. in mathematics and physics at the University of Michigan, obtaining her Ph.D. in physics at Harvard University in 2004. She conducted her postdoctoral work at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. During that time, she was also a visiting member of the Center for Theoretical Biophysics at the University of California, San Diego. Fiete subsequently spent two years at the California Institute of Technology as a Broad Fellow in brain circuitry and then joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin before coming to MIT in 2019.
